The Official TPR Spain & Mini-Europe Trip 2007 Thread

[viking86Beware of the freeze-dried donkey!]

^That's an interesting idea. Do they plan to expand in years to come?


Also, another question...Does a park like this do well,business wise, in Spain? Seems to me this would be the type of park that would be stuggleing in the US.

From what I have heard, Terra Mitica was struggling alot earlier, but I have no idea how they are doing at the moment...

[robbalveySite Admin]

Well, here is the last of the mini-updates from the Spain trip! I'll move on to doing Mini-Europe updates tomorrow.

Our last park was Parque Warner Madrid, which was built by Six Flags and could arguabley be the nicest "Six Flags" park ever!

Although it was REALLY freaking hot the day we were there and it made it almost unbearable.

The day started out with ERT on Superman, the B&M floorless, which many people agreed was one of the best coasters of the trip.

Coaster Express, the RCCA woodie which last year I deemed one of the worst woodies I've been on, actually wasn't running quite so bad this year.

Anyway, onto some photos and some videos!

[robbalveySite Admin]

But wait there's MORE!!!

On one of our last nights in Madrid Steve decided to crash the wedding that was going on at the hotel....I'm sure he can tell the whole story, but these photos and videos certainly add to the hilarity of the evening!

[LouiseJolly jolly jolly jolly jolly]

I'm so speechless. This is by far one of my favourite memories from the entire trip, Rob (with one b) and I couldn't do anything other than piss ourselves laughing. Thanks Steve, you were a fudging legend that night.

[SteveCDonald Duck...]

Blimey - at least 2 of my chins were not synchronized- must try harder!

The truth of the gate crashing is that some Spaniard crazies (well the smashed out of his skull best man and his mates) threatened to kill us all unless we joined them for free beer and upset the total order of things. It was Trev's fault for wearing what they thought was a Liverpool Football (soccer) shirt, which turned out to be a Stoke City shirt! Much confusion ensued, so I thought the best thing to do was pile on out there and look like I belonged to the wedding party.

If you can't speak the langauge, and appear to be dressed inappropriately, do what I did - dive in , shake your booty, arse, A$$, boobs, chins, anything that moves and hey - you get free beer.

I rest my case - oh and Ron, if you had taken your shirt off then, I feel sure we would have also gotten some free shots!

Lou - we must dance again, I'm limbering up for some Japan style moves, although I think I have only ever seen them pole dancing.

Could be fun though?

Oh and BTW British Rob with one B - where are the pics of Lou and the Gypsy King blokes, remember the actual little bloke that danced and then propositioned Lou in front of us all? -these need to be posted sooner rather than later

[thefitness"Excuse me, miss, may I pound my large rooster into your donkey?"]

^That's an interesting idea. Do they plan to expand in years to come?


Also, another question...Does a park like this do well,business wise, in Spain? Seems to me this would be the type of park that would be stuggleing in the US.

From what I have heard, Terra Mitica was struggling alot earlier, but I have no idea how they are doing at the moment...

Thanks!


Parque Warner Madrid looks pretty nice!

Wedding Crashers:TPR Edition

[EuroTreI wrote the book about donkeys!]

Awwwww. I actually kind of hoped that Coaster Express would have been on a murderous rampage. That would have given me something to laugh about. Oh, and the Hoffman girl + Superman = Ew.

[MrMorganThe only thing better than a naked woman is a naked donkey!]

You know, one thing I loved about Superman at Warner is it's one of very few, (wait are there any others?), B&M superloopers with a "straight forward" drop. Twisting is fun, but you can't beat a great big drop straight ahead. Anyone else share this opinion?

And, I just remembered that the very first video I ever posted on the sight was from my Spain trip back in 2004. I re-posted a streaming version for anyone who's interested. Those of you who met me on the Mini-Europe Trip will be interested to see what I looked like when I had a small enough forhead to actually style my hair. Teetle.

http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/vi ... p?p=169395

[LouiseJolly jolly jolly jolly jolly]

Oh and BTW British Rob with one B - where are the pics of Lou and the Gypsy King blokes, remember the actual little bloke that danced and then propositioned Lou in front of us all? -these need to be posted sooner rather than later

Oh my God, I'd forgotten that was the same night. Umm, NO, they do not need to be posted. That was frightening!

[AdelleywelleyI Guess Donkeys Are Okay]

Thanks for the photos and the updates, your trip looked amazing. I never realised there were so many good parks in Spain. Well, that's my 2008 holiday sorted!